E-Learning is Dead

Jay Cross reacts in his blog to the changing of the name of E-Learning Magazine to the uninspiring title Learning and Training Innovations. More...

Barriers to Distance Education
I'm still in Toronto and though the Marriott here has high speed (yay!) I'm using my back-up laptop (long story) with no mouse, so things are still slow... I return home tomorrow, so expect a longer issue with a fair bit of catch-up (plan ahead, reserve some time - heh). More...

Where the Market Is: IDC on E-Learning
I spent the day at an Enterprise Network forum in Fredericton today. Hence the late newsletter. The idea of the forum was to promote the technology and e-learning cluster forming in New Brunswick. More...

Incunabula
There's not a lot of in-depth content in this weblog entry, but it will (probably) add a new word to your vocabulary and it roughly expresses a view of e-learning similar to mine, so there you go (also, it's a slow news day - people seem to have other things on their minds, me included). More...

Will Enterprise Software Companies Take Over E-learning?
It must be tempting, notes the author, for enterprise software companies such as Oracle, PeopleSoft or Microsoft. Adding an e-learning capacity to their existing product line would enable them to increase sales and marketability. But the author thinks that this is unlikely, for three reasons: functionality, markets, and focus. More...

E-Learning Policy Implications for K-12 Educators and Decision Makers
Good analysis of the state of e-learning in schools along with a number of policy recommendations. The thrust of the report is that while e-learning appears to be here to stay, more research is needed to assess its effectiveness and mechanisms are needed to help instructors using e-learning to communicate and implement their vision of learning online. More...

A Theory for E-Learning
The current discussion paper for the International Forum of Educational Technology & Society, this paper takes the broad view of e-learning and posts a set of ten principles. I think it's a good discussion starter. I think that the resulting discussion will find these principles too narrow. More...

The National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII): An Interview with EDUCAUSE's Carole Barone
Interesting interview with Carole Barone, vice president of EDUCAUSE and head of the National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII). Online learning, argues Barone, challenges our assumptions about the nature of education. More...

A Model for Effectively Supporting e-Learning
The authors argue in favour of a three point plan for effectively supporting e-learning but spend most of the article describing their call center proposal. The three points are: (1) technological infrastructure, (2) one-stop student services, and (3) faculty and academic development support. More...